We're sick and tired of being called racists and bigots and sexists, when all we want is the best for everybody. We are sick and tired of this categorization, when, in fact, it is the people leveling the charge who are the racists; who look at these people and see no possibility; who see no potential; who see them only as voters; who want to dumb them down; who want to keep them poor; who want to keep them dependent. It's not us that want to perpetuate the misery of people who vote Democrat, continue to exist in their lives.Accept that stance, or not, but recognize that it does resonate with a large part of the Republican base.
If you look at the entire Democrat constituency, except for Hollywood and Wall Street, it is a never-ending sea of human misery. And we hate that, and we despise it, and we want it to end because we want a great country, and we know that a great country is made up of great individuals. Another reason the standing O occurred there, the reason for it, was that a media member got smacked down without being directly spoken to. In fact, when they went to the after-debate analysis, of course everybody knew that Juan would have his take on it, and he did, and he admitted to being shocked.
Andrew Sullivan, however, finds a cross-section of right-thinking Establishment opinion critical of the Speaker, some of it calling out his tendency to say what's on his mind, diplomatically or not.
You've got Mr Tory, Mr Neocon, Mr Hamiltonian, Mr Tightwad, Mr Theocon, and Miss Thing in rare agreement. But Fox News viewers and many many others in the base want none of it, at least so far. And so we have a fantastically interesting crisis in which the Republican establishment is trying to persuade the base to drop the candidate who now has commanding leads in four of the five first votes.Sometimes one can fire a sitting president, although there are enough voters with long memories to suggest that the firing is more effective when the replacement has the proper temperament.
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